The things I love

One of the things I miss most about home is the big mountains and Tabiona (my home away from home). I miss the rustle of the trees when the wind blows, the sound of the humming birds at grandma's feeders, the trickling of the river, the relaxation of fishing all day, the peaceful mornings on the porch swing the beauty of the deer in the fields, the smell of cow manure, (yes that's right, I miss it!)
My mom went out to Tabiona this past weekend and took some pictures for me and Missy. Here is my favorite place on earth:

Another thing I love is the fall. I could spend hours in the fall driving up in the mountains, taking pictures and enjoying the crisp air. I love the crunchy sound of the leaves beneath my feet and the colors of the leaves. If you haven't experienced fall, I highly suggest you try it!

That is all for now. Peace out

The magic of Photoshop

I promise you will get a real post about me very soon, but I th0ught I would share how incredible photoshop is. I think well, I do spend hours in photoshop trying to create different things. Last night I was up until 2 creating a photoshop makeover. I took this picture from somewhere online, so if you know the girl... oops. ha ha. Anywho, Here are the original before picture and the after photoshop picture. Let me know what ya think. :)

Before



After

The Totally Awesome 80's

I had an urge to dress up, so I decided to have an 80's party!! I invited all my friends and told them to come dressed up 80's style...


Here is Holly and I pre-party. Posing with Michael Jackson

Holly rockin' out in her killer 80's attire


Look at my hair!! This was my inspiration...

not quite the same but still totally 80's. The back looked like it had been pulled up into a banana clip.


My 80's outfit... complete with electric blue leggings and a Michael Jackson T-shirt.


John's get-up: pegged pants and square sunglasses... TUBULAR!


Kiana's outfit was pretty gnarly if you ask me..


Johnny's attire... gotta love levi!


Kevin and Josh... this cracks me up!! It's like way totally awesome!


Bryan and Isaiah


Emi and Mike... he he he

Osiris and Crystal... I love the fanny pack and the levi shirt... ha ha ha!


Holly and me

Once everyone got to my house, we played some 80's Singstar (Karaoke) We sung songs from Queen, The Bangles, Billy Joel, Bonnie Tyler, New Kids on the Block, Vanilla Ice, and more...



Zach and Ed


Courtney and Johnny

After Singstar, we played "It's a very romantic date". It was pretty funny..



Courtney and Josh


Courtney and Kevin


Here are some more shots from that game:



After that we voted on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place costumes for guys and girls. Here are the winners:


Crystal won 2nd place and got some killer red leopard jewelry, Emi won 1st place and got the movie Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and some heart shaped sunglasses, Osiris got 3rd place and won some rainbow earrings. Isaiah got 2nd place and won a paddle ball, Kevin won 1st and got the movie Karate Kid and some gnarly sunglasses, and Josh won 3rd place and won a mini rubics cube. They looked AMAZING!!


After that we played a game that I've been so excited about... Pin the glove on Michael Jackson!! It was fun!



Bryan was our winner and he won a mini rubics cube.

To finish off the night, we watched an 80's classic:



It was a totally tubularly awesome night!! I can't wait to plan the next party....


The whole gang

Come on get in the boat FISH!

Today, I went deep sea fishing!! Holly came with me and we woke up at 5 am to head out to the dock in Waikiki. The name of our boat: Maggie Joe.

I got the tickets through a friend of Jimmy's. We went with about 15 other people and it was fun!!


Me right before we left


The view of the island as we were sailing away...





This is the view of the boat from the top deck. We went about 20 miles off the shore of the island and he waves were incredibly large and it was very hard to walk around without falling over... everyone else who came were drinking on top of that so they were extra tipsy. I was really surprised at how choppy the water was and how big the waves were out there. I thought for sure some of them were going to swallow us whole. It got really bad and some people started to puke over the side of the boat...but don't worry, our captain, Nate, told us where to throw up so it wouldn't come back and hit us in the face.... it was interesting as one by one people started up chucking.... I would think that drinking would make it worse, but as soon as they were done, they would grab another beer. ha ha


This is me fishing. By this time I was feeling a little sea sick myself, but i was determined not to throw up. So I stood at the edge of the boat, hoping I wouldn't fall in and I fished.


at one point I got one on my line, and it was a big one! but then the line broke. Nate (our captain) said that a stupid shark probably got to it.


So, I tried it again...



and this time, I got it! I probably fought that sucker for a good 15 minutes before I was able to get it in.

It was really fun and I was glad the chair was there so I didn't fall over.


It finally came in and Nate grabbed it out of the water


and took out the hook



It was about a 15 pound yellow fin tuna... yea!!



This is one of the hooks
After I caught that I wasn't feeling very well, so I went and laid down for a second, then I decided to go use the bathroom and the smell in there made me run for the side of the boat and I hurled. Then I spent about 3 hours sleeping so that I wouldn't hurl again. I love the catching the fish part of deep sea fishing, but I just can't handle the sea sickness.





Here's me with my tuna and a mahi mahi


Holly with the tunas


This is the whole group that went with our fishies.



Nate filleting my fish

I had lots of fun and would reccomend it to anyone!!